Comments on Prepare Rasters for Maxent versus Find ArcGIS Rasters and Project to Template in MGET

On my page for the Prepare Rasters for Maxent Tool for ArcGIS I made a comment about its application versus another tool called Find ArcGIS Rasters and Project to Template in the Marine Geospatial Ecology Toolbox.  To access that page click HERE .  Here is the text of that comment:

The Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools for ArcGIS (http://mgel.env.duke.edu/mget) is an excellent toolbox that includes much of the functionality of the Prepare Rasters for Maxent toolbox. I highly recommend checking it out. In particular, check out the Find ArcGIS Rasters and Project to Template tool which will batch project and clip all rasters to a template. One primary difference between that tool and Prepare Rasters for Maxent is that Prepare Rasters for Maxent has built-in steps to resample and fill in missing data. If you know that you have gaps in your data then Prepare Rasters for Maxent may be your best bet. If you don't think that you have gaps or they are minor then consider Find ArcGIS Rasters and Project to Template as a speedier alternative. You can create a template raster by multiplying all of your rasters together in the Raster Calculator. By default this will take the intersection of all of the rasters resulting in a template that is smaller than any one of the inputs.